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SuperBa-a-a-a-a-a-ahd

maryh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:34:27 -0800

Extreme Shepherding! X-Treme Art!! YEAAAAH!!1! (SLYT )

By: squashotheclown

squashotheclown — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:41:51 -0800

Viral ad for Samsung it appears. But still cool. :) Baa-ram-ewe.

By: Science!

Science! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:43:41 -0800

Holy crap that's awesome. Herding dogs are so unbelievably amazing, the sheep were just being sheep, the humans just had the "big picture" idea, those dogs carried it out. Good job dogs.

By: Brockles

Brockles — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:47:37 -0800

Hmmm. I'm not convinced by all of that, I have to say. Having watched (i know, I know) a decent amount of sheep herding in the past I don't think that level of complexity (particularly the big walking sheep) is possible with that level of control. Sheep are incredibly obtuse creatures and just don't like doing what you want them to and there weren't all that many dogs and shepherds. I mean, it's ace and I wish it were real, but the fact it is a viral suggests some serious elements of 'fudging reality'.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:24 -0800

I like gyros.

By: Science!

Science! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:45 -0800

I have no doubt that they fudged it a bit, especially with the walking sheep, but I think most of it was just painstaking time lapse photography.

By: The Devil Tesla

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:50:58 -0800

but the fact it is a viral suggests some serious elements of 'fudging reality'. There is an element of stop motion to the enterprise, where they get the sheep into position and then string images together to get the end effect. I don't think they were trying to hide that, but even though it's not live it's still impressive.

By: pianomover

pianomover — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:52:52 -0800

I want to do youuu you ewe you. In the barn on some hay, what do you say? You ewe you.

By: maryh

maryh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:53:22 -0800

Honestly, I have no idea whether this is real or not. I just love the idea of X! Treme! SHEPHERDS!! I'm sure this post can be further enhanced by several mugs o' green beer.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:57:00 -0800

I miss One Man And His Dog... ah, proper telly that was.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:05:05 -0800

Sheep toy tail fail. Can be bought at Wal-Mart. (warning self flikr link)

By: elgilito

elgilito — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:08:18 -0800

Yeah, that's faked, I guess simple CG rather than time-lapse, which would involve hundreds of sheep (and the clouds above in the big sheep image...) staying still between two frames and then handled one by one. But it's a wonderful idea anyway, I loved it.

By: yoink

yoink — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:14:35 -0800

I'm another vote for fun-but-faked. Used to watch a lot of sheepdog trials in my wild and misspent youth and while I think they could get close to some of this via the time-lapse route, most of it would not be possible. Also, much, much easier to do via CGI--so why bother?

By: idiopath

idiopath — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:17:19 -0800

I would say this is more a sponsored work than a viral. Nothing about the video except the end credits implies samsung at all. They don't hide samsung's part in funding it. It makes all sorts of sense to me that with the ubiquity of copying we are going back to the old time radio revenue model: we can't sell you the final product, so every once in a while we will mention the name of our corporate sponsor (hopefully instead of being surreptitiously sneaked into the content, it is tastefully tacked on the beginning or end as a separate blurb, as they did here). Until we have ubiquitous state funding of artists, I think we are going to have to settle for that with all art that is digitizable.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:20:05 -0800

Pretty obviously fake. How are the dogs going to observe, let alone manage, the internal structure of the image?

By: pantsrobot

pantsrobot — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:33:56 -0800

Don't the shepherds tell the dogs where to go?

By: yoink

yoink — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:53:36 -0800

Don't the shepherds tell the dogs where to go? Frequently--but they tend to keep it clean on national TV.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:49:32 -0800

I don't even care that this is SheepBlue. Best youtube video I've ever seen!

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:32:39 -0800

I am apparently unable to scroll past this post and not read it as "extreme shoplifting". Then be lost in imagining how cool (but wrong, of course, terribly wrong) that could be. Looking forward to checking out the actual video though when possible, given the rave reviews here.

By: jrochest

jrochest — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:36:51 -0800

This is awesomely wonderful, even if faked...which it probably is, but who cares...

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:09:54 -0800

I was kind of hoping a giant pack of wolves in the form of an even bigger sheep would follow.